Mr. Speaker, I wrote a letter to the Honourable Charles Dent and Mr. Kelvin Ng on March 7, 1996, and to date I have not received any response regarding the building and learning strategy program without any notice to Wha Ti First Nation. They had to use the previous year's profits to train the project manager because $20,000 was withdrawn and was not made available for training dollars as part of the housing project costs from the Department of Education, Culture and Employment.

Mr. Speaker, the problems do not end here. The Wha Ti First Nation was not only hit financially due to the loss of $20,000, the Housing Corporation wanted the Wha Ti First Nation to agree on administering their housing programs on a fixed price and stated that if they had not signed an agreement before March 31, 1996, the Housing Corporation threatened that the housing project would go out to tender.

Mr. Speaker, a letter from the Housing Corporation dated February 27, 1996, to the Wha Ti First Nation stated that in the coming year, construction will be up for tender. The Wha Ti First Nation has a serious concern about the manner in which contracts are being forced upon them and about how numerous training dollars can be cut without notice to the people who will be mostly affected and will drastically affect the community's ability to successfully bid with any other bidders in a housing project. I do not accept the way the programs are being administered by the two departments, and have serious concerns about how transfers of housing projects to the communities are being handled.

Mr. Speaker, I will have a question for both the Honourable Charles Dent and Mr. Kelvin Ng at the appropriate time today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.